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I don't want the history blog to come down to a list of things I bought, but these were exciting times!


The Star NX1000 was a graphics dot matrix printer, it had the ability to do NLQ which was "near letter quality" and had built in fonts selectable from a little front panel. It was wise to use draft quality most of the time though as NLQ would do a double pass on the ribbon.

The printer was around $300 plus tax and of course, to use it on the C64 I needed a special parallel interface cable which was another $60, but what price perfection?

In these days of inkjet and laser printers being almost given away, it is funny that we would spend so much back then on a fanfold dot matrix machine, however it was an exciting addition to my 1988 system.